Interdisciplinary Studies 100-B: Special Topic in Health Care and Professions: Health Professions I

Credits 1
Credit Type
Semester Offered
Fall
Faculty
K. Mueller

Designed for first and second-year students who are pondering a career in a health profession. Students will explore course and major selection across the liberal arts. The role of shadowing, observation, and volunteer work for discerning a career path in the professions will be presented with an emphasis on universal precautions, air-borne and blood-borne pathogens and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Upon successful course completion, students will have met the requirements to participate in shadowing experiences at local Walla Walla clinics and hospital. Activity credit limitation applies. Graded credit/no credit. Open to first years and sophomores; juniors and seniors by consent of instructor.